[R] get the enclosing function name

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11/12/2009 8:50 AM, Hao Cen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to get the enclosing function name within a function?

You confused me at first with "enclosing function", but I think you can 
do what you want using something like

f <- function() {
   print(sys.call()[[1]])
}

f()

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> For example, I would like to have a function getEnclosingFunctionName().
> It works like below
> 
> f = function(){
>   print(getEnclosingFunctionName())
> 
> }
> 
> 
> f()  # will print  "f"
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jeff
> 
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